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Institute of Technology
Wealth and democracy a political history of the American rich /
"For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. Now he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he c...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Broadway Books,
2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | "For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. Now he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century." "The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth - how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 473 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-455) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780767911511 (electronic bk.) 0767911512 (electronic bk.) |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |